Sunil Amrith
@sunilamrith
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Historian of South and Southeast Asia @Harvard, 2017 #MacFellow, author of UNRULY WATERS, husband, father, jazz lover...
Cambridge, MA
Joined February 2013
A review of Unruly Waters in @nature. Thank you @philipcball for your thoughtful reading.
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Nature - Philip Ball plunges into a chronicle of the subcontinent’s human and environmental histories.
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"Unruly Waters" - my podcast with @sunilamrith @Harvard_History On struggles to gain mastery over water, across Asia Narratives of nationhood, ideas of conquest, mega dams, activism, regulation & climate change.. (it's action-packed, Sunil is awesome) https://t.co/6HahAf4BLQ
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It was so much fun to record a "Four Questions" podcast today with the wonderful @alice_evans
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"Even radical climate change action won’t save [Himalayan] glaciers, endangering 2 billion people." #water But there are some things we can do to fend off the worst....check out Chapter 10 on #airpollution...(which the @guardian article doesn't mention). https://t.co/2fsGUtJCHa
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Even radical climate change action won’t save glaciers, endangering 2 billion people
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Thank you @PorterSqBooks for a lovely book event for Unruly Waters this evening, so glad to have such a wonderful independent bookstore on our doorstep!
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Cambridge friends, I’ll be speaking about my new book, Unruly Waters, at the wonderful @PorterSqBooks on Tuesday Jan 29, 7pm. All welcome!
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This will be a highlight of #JLF2019
Looking fwd to our session this morning #Cellphone Nation at Jaipur Litfest #JLF2019 with @RaviReports @BDUTT @ZEEJLF @NamitaGokhale_ @Harvard_Press
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A real privilege to be in discussion with Ornit Shani @ZEEJLF
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At Jaipur for #JLF2019, looking forward to hearing many amazing writers! The Indian ed of Unruly Waters (@PenguinIndia) will be launched here tomorrow.
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PS. For anyone interested in the material in my @TheAtlantic piece, do check out the vital work of @ClimateChirper
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An extract from Unruly Waters in @TheAtlantic
“Arguably no other part of the global climate system affects more people, more directly.” A half-century of pollution, irrigation, and farming projects in India may have destabilized the South Asian monsoon, writes @sunilamrith.
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Thank you @_alice_evans!! I’m looking forward to it very much.
How do unruly waters shape our politics? How have people's struggles to manage water shaped the political & economic development of South Asia? I am VERY excited for my podcast with historian @sunilamrith @Harvard 🤩
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Cambridge friends, I’ll be speaking about my new book, Unruly Waters, at the wonderful @PorterSqBooks on Tuesday Jan 29, 7pm. All welcome!
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A very important esay by @ChinmayTumbe
"The great Indian migration wave, which is semi-permanent, male-dominated, and remittance-based, is the world’s largest and longest voluntary stream of migration. There are over a 100 million migrant workers in India." https://t.co/RjhvkZVlqP
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In the final post of this series, @meghaamrith asks what the future might look like for #migrant workers in Asia who have been abroad on precarious contracts over decades https://t.co/aBAL1l5Pkk
#ageing #bodies #labour Watch this space for @agemig_MPI updates from the field!
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Breaking News: Scientists say the world’s oceans are heating up faster than previously thought, a finding with dire implications for climate change
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An analysis concluded that Earth’s oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a United Nations panel estimated five years ago, a finding with dire implications for climate change.
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Today on LQ: An excerpt from “Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History” by @sunilamrith, now out from @BasicBooks. https://t.co/8jYiiA3o5M
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‘The landscape of contemporary South Asia was shaped by responses to the disastrous famines of the late nineteenth century,’ historian @sunilamrith tells @kevingopal about his new book Unruly Waters - https://t.co/yPBKLvTqUz
@AllenLaneBooks
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At the end of 2018, I’m especially grateful to @_alice_evans and @samuelmoyn for tweets that have been consistently illuminating, entertaining, and insightful!
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